Joseph Stalin
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BIOGRAPHY
- Born: December 1878- March 1953
- From Gori, Georgia which he switched his name
- birth name Josef Vissarionorich Djugashvilli
- Was the leader of the Soviet Union
- Born in poverty and rose to politics (revolutionary)
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CAREER/POLITICAL VIEW POINTS
- In 1901 Stalin joined the Social Democratic Labor Party
- Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics, as well as criminal activities, as a young man.
- He was Commissar for State Control in 1919-23, and in 1922 was appointed Secretary-General of the communist party
- After the death of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin joined forces with Grigory Zinoviev and Leon Kamenev to lead the country.
- Stalin claimed that “ the closer the country came to achieving communism, the more intense the resistance by the revolution’s enemies would be…”
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CAREER/POLITICAL VIEW POINTS
- Stalin took land from farmers and gave government complete control
- Stalin claimed that “ the closer the country came to achieving communism, the more intense the resistance by the revolution’s enemies would be…”
- Leon Trotsky was one of the main opposers of Stalin. He was a founder and first leader of the red army, and politician. Trotskies marxist theories opposed that of Stallins.
- Stalinism is also commonly used in a critical manner to refer to Stalin's style of governance with associations.
- Stalinist policies in the Soviet Union included: rapid industrialization,collectivization of agriculture, the theory centralized state, and subordination of interests of foreign communist parties.
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ROLE DURING THE COLD WAR
- Stalin was responsible for strained relationship with the West
- He maximized the ideology in communism
- Stalin gained control oc the communist government
- He began to set up commj ist governments
- He brought terror and worked to get rid of competition
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BEGINNING ROLE
- Stalin rose to power after the the death of Lenin
- He joined forces with Grigiry Zinoviec and Leon Kamenev to lead the countries
- communist cut off all communications to the West
- Claimed the territory that he got from germany part of the Soviet Empire
- Stalin made the government communist plan to rebuild Europe
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MIDDLE ROLE
- He established communist governments throughout Eastern Europe
- Prosecuted terror, execution, labor camps
- He was against anything foreign, Western-influence
- He had secret police, allowed citizens to spy on eachother
- Had millions of people killed or sent to labor camps
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ENDING ROLE
- Stalin died March 1953, suffering from a stroke
- His death resulted in a thaw in Cold War tensions
- In 1955 Austria re-gained sovereignty and became an independent neutral nation
- Following his death Nikita Khrushchev then became the secretary of the communist party
- In some cases hes responsible for 20 million deaths during hid rule
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ENDING ROLE
- Stalin died March 1953, suffering from a stroke
- His death resulted in a thaw in Cold War tensions
- In 1955 Austria re-gained sovereignty and became an independent neutral nation
- Following his death Nikita Khrushchev then became the secretary of the communist party
- In some cases hes responsible for 20 million deaths during hid rule
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View point
- Feel that Stalin was a hero while feeling Hitler led them blindly
- There is praise in what Stalin did because he is a winner
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